Locomotive terminal coaling and sanding station



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LOCOIVIDTIVE TERMINAL COALING AND SANDING STATION.

Application inea June 5,

To all whom 15 may concern:

Be it known that LSrnNcnn Oris, a citizen of the United States, residing at Chicago, in the county of Cook and `State of Illinois, have invented certainv new and useful Improvements in Locomotive Terminal Coaling and Sanding Stations, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a locomotive terminal, and particularly to that part of a terminal which supplies material, such as coal and sand, to locomotives.v

One object of the invention is to store materials of the kind stated not only in bulk to be drawn upon as needed, but also in subdivided charges having dimensions and positions which will admit of instant delivery of predetermined quantities to locomotives to be supplied.

Another object is to so arrange bulk storage space and subdivided charging recep tacles that gravity can be employed for passing the material to the bulk storage space from rolling stock whichl brings the material in, and from the subdivided charging spaces which deliver measured quantities of material to locomotives, and thereby reduce to a minimum the occupancy of trackage by the rolling stock or the detention of the rolling stock at the station. Y

Still another object is to provide for conditioning and distributing material in a station of 'the kind described, and sand to be supplied therein.y

In carrying out the invention, l employ surface trackage for bringing in the material in bulk, a sub-surface bulk storage space for material, particularly fuel, receiving the material by gravity from rolling stock upon said surface trackage, subdivided delivery or provisional storage space, with supersurface loca-tion, andh delivery equipment adapted to discharge measured quantities of material into locomotives to be replenished while occupying surface trackage; and

particularly dirigible elevating'and conveyin g means for removing material from the bulk storage space and delivering it, selectively, to the individual subdivisions of delivery or provisional storage space. The invention also contemplates coordinating with the desired system of storage and distribution of fuel, drying bins for sand, supplied by the elevating and conveying means from cars on the surface trackage; main storage sand bins 1922. Serial No. 565,975.

supplied' by gravity from said drying bins; and provisional storage or distributing bins supplied, preferably through pneumatic conveyors, from said main sand storage bins, and elevated in position and equipped with Ldelivery spouts that adapt them to charge sand into locomotives occupying thesame surface trackage occupied during fuel load ing, so that fuel and sand supplies can be delivered simultaneously.

Preferably, the provisional storage and delivery bins for both. fuel and sand, and surface trackage for locomotives receiving therefrom are duplicated on opposite sides of the bulk storage space and elevating and distributing apparatus, and the delivery units are multiplied4 along these sides in order that a plurality `of locomotives may take sta-tion simultaneously at each side, and the elevating and' distributing apparat-us, both for fuel and sand, lcan serve all provisional storage and delivery containers storage to theprovisional storage or delivery units l, l, represent surface level trackage related to a sub-surface bulk fuel storage space 2 in a manner to permit unloading by gravity into such space fuel contained in rolling stock on said trackage. The storage space 2 'is preferably of a form and construction which will adapt it to confine water, so that fuel in the form of coal, when stored in large volume, `can be safeguarded against spontaneous bombustion. "i

3 represents a dredging and elevating bucket, for instance of the clam-shell type, suspended by winding rope 4c from trolley 5 adapted to traverse a bridge 6, which is in turn movably mounted upon the usual tracks 7. The winding of the rope 4, the traversing of trolley 5, and movements of bridge 6 are assumed to be under voluntary control of an operator in a cage 8, so that a charge of llt) fuel or other material picked up by the bucket@ .can be elevated to a super-surtace position Vvand thi-'Ln,moved and ldeposited at Will over any desired point Witliinthe range of the elevating mechanism,

9V representsA provisional storage pockets Y Vfor, fuel'vvliich entend invvardly to points @that adapt them to'be Vcharged with fuel through means of the bucket, and which terminate in spouts 10 presented in position v,to ,deliver the contents of any pocket inlntly-to a glocoiriot-ive tender', suoli as suggested .at A, standing Ion one ,of the suriace tracks. all v5190121@ 10 are Provided with suitable valves orV closures 10av through means "fo-if' Which to ldetermine. thetime of their discharge. f

1 2 represents pockets for Asand y' ladapted t-,be charged by the bucket 3 With sand brought into tthe terminalin cars upon the tracks 1. Vflhje'se drying pockets comrmunicate'`throughl spouts 13having controlling valves 13a, with bulk storageisand tanks M te which l,the sand is delivered, after .is elevuated through pneumatic-tubes' l5 to pproyisionagl sandstorage or unit delivery tanks 16, VWhere it islheld,"prop erly conditioned, inV predetermined V subdivisions ofV .volume v suitable for ,charging locomotives cnutering upon the .tracks l-1.- Each delivery tank 16 hsa spout -l inxposition lfor 'delivery'to" a locomotive', as aforesaid, and these spouts have .some-suitable,torniof ,controlling valve as suggested atf`l7a, through :ineLIlS O Which ther-'time of disi I v,charge of thecontents ofthe tanks may be v.determined at Wifll.

f Any suitable means'maybe employed for' A causing sandgto rise through the pneumatic :tubes 15.' Byway of illustration the air i blastnozzle 18'in ejector relation to the pipe 1.5 isfshotvnin Figure 5.V

Vr'lhe ,System of surfacetrackage*1,tlirough of `rwhich suppliesv arebrought into the terminal, isprefer'ably arrangedindu? plicate,,and;tlie`capacity of the subsurface storage space 2? correspondingly enlarged@ '.-fandgbulk storage .sand tanks 14, drying Y 570ipockets 12,-fue1 Vzelivery `pockets 9,'andsand r delivery tanks l@ :are preferably arranged in f; pairs, ,While surface trackage k1l Vis dupli-` :feated eileppesite sides ofthe terminal in order that :tivo lines of locomotivesniay 'be :;75 charged simultaneously, vthe trackagev and .delivery pockets or ,tanks b eing'arranged so drying. 5 Frombulk sand tanks l the sand that a plurality of locomotives on each track may be served at one ,timec By the system of sub-surface bulk `storage of fuel with gravity discharge tlieieinto from the surface level supply tracks, and gravity discharge from the distributing pockets orA tanks, y.the ,detention of rolling stock on any v'of the tracks is reduced to a minimum of time. By having the elevating crane adapted to transfer materials as described, selectively,to any of the receiving pockets or tanks, the latter can be kept filled by .more or less constant operation `of .the crane, sothat the pockets and `tanks are fready at all Itimes Yto .deliver vcharges `of ,nia-

V,terial to the'locomotives, measured by .the .capacity of the pockets.

VThe expression surface trackage, sur- `face level, supply track Vor equivalent expression found in theforegoing specification and .in the sub-joined claim, is to be linden stood as indicating trackage receiving supply cars and locomotives to be charged from the normal trackage ,of the system. lSuch tracks, at the coaling and sanding station,

whether `for presentation of locomotives to loe supplied or receiving ,cars with supplies for the terminal, may be on, or above, or belov7 the actual horizontal level of the' main tracks with which they connect, or on ,different levels with each other, the spirit of this .to deliver `material to locomotives occupying said charging track, an elevating means selectively ,operable to' transfer material .from

.the bulk-,storage space Ato the respective f charging receptacles, storage tanks `for sand alsofadapted .to v'be charged by said elevating-- `means, and ,delivery sand 'tanks supplied from said storage sand tanks.Y f

Signed at `Chicago, Illinoisgthis 2nd day .of June, 1922. r

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